25th European Safety and Reliability Conference07/09/2015 - 10/09/2015 The 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015, will be held at ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zürich, Switzerland, on the 7th to 10th of September, 2015.&raquo read more

ECCE1027/09/2015 - 01/10/2015 The tenth European Congress of Chemical Engineering is to be held this year in Nice, France. Held alongside it will be the partner events for the congress, ECAB3 and EPIC5, the European Congress of Applied Biotechnology, and the European Process Intensification Conference. The four days of the congress will see presentations and exhibitions on a vast array of industrial chemistry topics.&raquo read more

Technical Steering Committee Meeting - Autumn 201513/10/2015 - 14/10/2015 The TSC meeting and workshop are to be held on the 13th and 14th of October in IJmuiden, Netherlands, hosted by Tata.&raquo read more

ProSafe Europe 201519/10/2015 - 21/10/2015 Organised by T.A. Cook Conferences, ProSafe Europe is a three day conference for the process manufacturing community, aimed at keeping employees safe and keeping assets reliable.&raquo read more

EMEA Safety in Action Conference21/10/2015 - 22/10/2015 The Safety in Action conference is a knowledge exchange forum centred around panel discussions and workshops. This year for the first time, it will feature a track on process safety. It is to be held in Antwerp, Belgium.&raquo read more

News

IChemE Hazards 26 - Call For Papers07/07/2015
The call for papers inviting contributions to IChemE’s process safety conference, Hazards, is now open. Hazards 26 is being held in Edinburgh, UK on 24–26 May 2016.&raquo read more

EPSC at ACHEMA - A journey towards zero leaks and spills11/06/2015

The European Process Safety Centre will showcase its process safety activities on a series of specific topics, including a keynote lecture on a ‘journey towards zero leaks and spills’ at ACHEMA 2015 next week.

There is a call for papers, inviting all to contribute to the Hazardex 2016 International Conference which will be taking place in Runcorn, Cheshire, UK, on 24th & 25th February, 2016. Anybody with technical knowledge of experience in one of the conference themes is invited to submit a paper proposal for consideration by the content committee. The deadline for submissions is the 2nd October 2015.

Available to EPSC Members - Report 36 on Risk Acceptance Criteria16/04/2015

EPSC Members can now find our latest report in the members area. Report 36 on Risk Acceptance Criteria asks what are the requirements for tolerating risk by various parties? How much safety is safe enough?

The US Chemical Safety Board, which in 2010 won the EPSC Award for their process safety videos, have released a new video. Their latest video looks at the causes of an ammonia release which resulted in exposure for 150 people offsite.

Objectives

The European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) with the encouragement of CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council, founded EPSC in 1992. The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), based in the UK, administrates the Centre on behalf of the EFCE and ensures that EPSC funds will be solely used for the Centre. IChemE is a not for profit organisation and has charitable status under UK law. The Centre is located at the IChemE international headquarters in Rugby, England.

EPSC organises member meetings across Europe in order to plan and implement work on topics which are of most value to members. These can result in a tangible output such as information sheets, internal reports, publications and international conferences. Through these activities, we work towards the following objectives:

1. Collaboration Coherency among various organisations supporting process safety is important. Clear, consistent messages from all sources benefit member companies and allow faster, more decisive policy making. EPSC will pursue a policy of collaboration with other organisations that are also working towards better process safety.

2. Information In the internet era, obtaining know-how and information is instant and is available to all. Finding out the technicalities is complete within a couple of internet searches. The new challenge is being able to select what is useful and valid. EPSC will focus on this by drawing together best practices from public sources and member companies and by providing a means to share and distribute them.

3. Influence Clearly EPSC members are best served by an organisation that is respected and influential. Knowledge, expertise and experience in process safety are one half of the equation. Being able to apply it to maximum effect is the other. We will continue and extend our efforts with EU and national organisations where there is a relationship with process safety. We will make these activities more transparent and understandable and wherever possible we will encourage member participation. And we will endeavour to increase membership in several regions where we feel underrepresentation.

4. Outreach Process safety performance is influenced by a great many factors, many of which lie outside the sphere of influence of the process safety expert. Working together with other business sectors, other disciplines and institutions is crucial for long-term incident reduction. EPSC will proactively reach out beyond the normal boundaries of process safety to other types of organisation and businesses that ultimately have a role to play in better process safety. Our work to better guide senior company management will continue and we will continue to encourage membership of less traditionally "chemical" companies. Additionally, cooperation will be sought with academic institutions for better process education long term. And contacts will be sought with other discipline areas that are important for a sustainable chemicals sector.